The measurement of an annual modulation in the event rate of direct dark matter detection experiments is a powerful tool for dark matter discovery. Indeed, several experiments have already claimed such a discovery in the past decade. While most of them have later revoked their conclusions, and others have found potentially contradictory results, one still stands today. This paper explains the potential as well as the challenges of annual modulation measurements, and gives an overview on past, present and future direct detection experiments.

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直接暗物质搜索中的年度调制

直接暗物质检测实验的事件发生率中年度调制的测量是暗物质发现的有力工具。确实，在过去的十年中，一些实验已经宣称具有这种发现。尽管大多数人后来撤消了他们的结论，而另一些人却发现了潜在矛盾的结果，但今天仍然存在。本文介绍了年度调制测量的潜力以及面临的挑战，并对过去，现在和将来的直接检测实验进行了概述。